Comments for Waking Heart

Comment on The Perfection of Being Human by Monica

Monica — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 10:57:23 +0000

“when I choose to love, that love is divine”

LOVE that. ok, i don’t think in terms of divinity, but i get it.
my emphasis is always on the quality of the love. i had never thought of the moment, that nanosecond of choosing love, as the perfection.

Comment on Dancing with Love by Offering Paradise

Offering Paradise — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 16:24:52 +0000

[...] nothing of me left. Thoughts would disappear until my awareness was as silent as snowfall. (See Dancing with Love from November [...]

Comment on Zen Dancing: Samadhi Through Movement by Offering Paradise

Offering Paradise — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 16:03:33 +0000

[...] lie in one object exerting force over another but in the recognition of our inseparability. (See Zen Dancing: Samadhi Through Movement from February 23, [...]

Comment on The Real Gift by author

author — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 12:22:23 +0000

Aw Scott, thank you, but go look in a mirror. And, can you send me your address again? ;-D

Comment on The Real Gift by Scottie

Scottie — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 06:44:15 +0000

You are the most beautiful person I have ever had the honor to know. thank you for the gifts you give to us all every day.

scott

Comment on Romance Movies, Where is the Love? by author

author — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 18:25:00 +0000

Haha, yes, I went with the non-obscene synonym. There seem to be some situations for which profanity says it all just right. ~~mindfudge~~ ~~something that messes with your head a lot~~ ~~stupid thesaurus *!#^@~~

Comment on Romance Movies, Where is the Love? by Melissa

Melissa — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 17:14:25 +0000

“mindjob” Heh!

I love this: “The more confused you are, the better.” Than I’m doing great

Thanks for giving us another way to view love relationships. I struggle a lot like your sociology student did, wanting something tangible, but when I can drop that love just becomes a field we swim in, with no reason to attach to anything. Another lovely post!

-M

Comment on Transmutation on the Precipice of Unknowing by Melissa

Melissa — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 00:19:36 +0000

Wow, I love the idea of “add nothing.” That could be such a cool concept for a book or blog post or poem, or….

Comment on To Have and To Hold by author

author — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 02:20:46 +0000

Yeah, I think we have both been really lucky to have bonded with loving people who didn’t offer the standard fare. Very difficult, sometimes gut wrenching, and sometimes sad, but so powerful at opening the heart to something deeper.

A concept that has been rolling through my mind a lot lately is in the title of a book, “The Cloud of Unknowing.” It describes a sort of forgetting of everything we think we know about what is “going on out there” and how this forgetting makes it possible to sense the luminous ground behind it all, what really is going on, I think.

Comment on To Have and To Hold by Melissa

Melissa — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 01:38:58 +0000

It’s occurred to me recently that romantic relationships are just really a testing ground for teaching us to let go, all the time. Let go of our assumptions, expectations, hopes, and judgments about what this other person is to us. When we cling to what we think a partner should be, instead of flowing with the fluidity of existence, we get a lot of conflict and heartbreak.

Comment on Delusion and Possibility by donna

donna — Wed, 26 May 2010 16:21:29 +0000

Imagination is pale and fragile,
Dreams grip with a false reality.
Imagination can build bridges,
Dreams can deceive.

When we dream, the experience is often deeply involving. Frightening dreams make us awake trembling and sweating. Pleasurable dreams leave us with lingering desire. Certain dreams are a form of healing, a way for our minds to recircuit and adjust themselves. No matter what, these dreams have no objective reality in our waking world.

Imagination is also a form of mental involvement. It is a way of projecting our thoughts into believable images to be contemplated and manipulated. We can play with our imagination, use it to inspire creative projects.

Both imagination and dreams are similar activities of the mind, and yet they differ in the level of conscious participation that they permit. In the case of the dream, there is a total suspension of rationality and consciousness, so there is little or no direction possible. There is no mode of control. By contrast, imagination is a tool through which we can make our lives better, different, and creative. By cooperating with it, we can achieve things that “we never dreamed possible.”

Deng Ming-Dao, 365 Tao

Comment on Delusion and Possibility by donna

donna — Wed, 26 May 2010 16:09:12 +0000

“Love what is in front of you, whatever is in front of you, in whatever way you can. And don’t worry about anything else. Even if you fail. Forgive yourself. That is all there is to it. Nothing else is happening.”

Namaste. ;^) You’ve got it. Forgive others, and forgive yourself, and love what is in front of you. All there is.

Comment on All Good Things by Good Morning Moon

Good Morning Moon — Fri, 21 May 2010 14:14:26 +0000

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Comment on Good Night Moon by Good Morning Moon

Good Morning Moon — Fri, 21 May 2010 03:32:48 +0000

[...] saw my dear Buddhist friend again, precisely three months after my last moon dream. We were brought together quite unexpectedly by the crisis of a mutual friend that reached its [...]

Comment on The Perfect Face by author

author — Wed, 19 May 2010 03:30:20 +0000

Thank you, Melissa.